On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
Hello,

I've run into a GSSAPI authentication problem that has caused me a little time to diagnose, but turns out to only occur with sssd_pac_plugin.so present. I am not an AD, Kerberos or sssd expert, so let me just present the information I have collected.

Our code, which uses GSSAPI, fails with the following error on a Fedora 20 box with sssd-client (sssd_pac_plugin.so) installed with the following error codes:

major: 851968='Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information', minor: 22='Invalid argument'

KRB5_TRACE does not give any useful indication for what goes wrong.

With sssd-client (sssd_pac_plugin.so) removed the GSSAPI authentication works. With KRB5_TRACE I get the following warning:

[23801] 1407018816.872001: PAC checksum verification failed: -1765328196/Bad encryption type

Looking at the code, I find that without sssd_pac_plugin.so installed the following verification function is used:

static krb5_error_code
mspac_verify(krb5_context kcontext,
            krb5_authdata_context context,
            void *plugin_context,
            void *request_context,
            const krb5_auth_context *auth_context,
            const krb5_keyblock *key,
            const krb5_ap_req *req)
{
   krb5_error_code code;
   struct mspac_context *pacctx = (struct mspac_context *)request_context;

   if (pacctx->pac == NULL)
       return EINVAL;

   code = krb5_pac_verify(kcontext, pacctx->pac,
                          req->ticket->enc_part2->times.authtime,
                          req->ticket->enc_part2->client, key, NULL);
   if (code != 0)
       TRACE_MSPAC_VERIFY_FAIL(kcontext, code);

   /*
* If the above verification failed, don't fail the whole authentication, * just don't mark the PAC as verified. A checksum mismatch can occur if * the PAC was copied from a cross-realm TGT by an ignorant KDC, and Apple
    * Mac OS X Server Open Directory (as of 10.6) generates PACs with no
    * server checksum at all.
    */
   return 0;
}


This incarnation of the mspac_verify() function is from

commit 76ebe5d07c1002b674eb1c4e3ab35f6001eec91c
Author: Greg Hudson <ghud...@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed Feb 16 23:34:37 2011 +0000

   Don't reject AP-REQs based on PACs

   Experience has shown that it was a mistake to fail AP-REQ verification
   based on failure to verify the signature of PAC authdata contained in
   the ticket.  We've had two rounds of interoperability issues with the
   hmac-md5 checksum code, an interoperability issue OSX generating
   unsigned PACs, and another problem where PACs are copied by older KDCs
   from a cross-realm TGT into the service ticket.  If a PAC signature
   cannot be verified, just don't mark it as verified and continue on
   with the AP exchange.

   ticket: 6870
   target_version: 1.9.1
   tags: pullup

git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@24640 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970



With sssd-client (sssd_pac_plugin.so) installed the function sssdpac_verify is used instead, which looks like this (sssd-client-1.11.6-1):

static krb5_error_code sssdpac_verify(krb5_context kcontext,
                                     krb5_authdata_context context,
                                     void *plugin_context,
                                     void *request_context,
const krb5_auth_context *auth_context,
                                     const krb5_keyblock *key,
                                     const krb5_ap_req *req)
{
   krb5_error_code kerr;
   int ret;
   krb5_pac pac;
   struct sssd_context *sssdctx = (struct sssd_context *)request_context;
   struct sss_cli_req_data sss_data;
   int errnop;

   if (sssdctx == NULL || sssdctx->data.data == NULL) {
       return EINVAL;
   }

   kerr = krb5_pac_parse(kcontext, sssdctx->data.data,
                         sssdctx->data.length, &pac);
   if (kerr != 0) {
       return EINVAL;
   }

   kerr = krb5_pac_verify(kcontext, pac,
                          req->ticket->enc_part2->times.authtime,
                          req->ticket->enc_part2->client, key, NULL);
   if (kerr != 0) {
       return EINVAL;
   }

   sss_data.len = sssdctx->data.length;
   sss_data.data = sssdctx->data.data;

   ret = sss_pac_make_request(SSS_PAC_ADD_PAC_USER, &sss_data,
                              NULL, NULL, &errnop);
   if (ret != 0) {
       /* Ignore the error */
   }

   return 0;
}

The krb5_pac_verify header documentation from krb5.h has this to say:

* @note A checksum mismatch can occur if the PAC was copied from a cross-realm
* TGT by an ignorant KDC; also Apple Mac OS X Server Open Directory (as of
* 10.6) generates PACs with no server checksum at all. One should consider * not failing the whole authentication because of this reason, but, instead,
* treating the ticket as if it did not contain a PAC or marking the PAC
* information as non-verified.

So, sssdpac_verify() treats krb5_pack_verify() errors as fatal, whereas krb5's mspac_verify() does not. This is all the information that I have gathered. It looks to me like sssd-client (sssd_pac_plugin.so) is not doing this right, but I'm looking forward to your comments.
I think you are on the right way here. We need to shortcut to return 0
there instead of EINVAL because unverified PAC wouldn't need to be added
to the cache.

Jakub, can you change the if (kerr != 0) {
       return EINVAL;
   }

to if (kerr != 0) {
       return 0;
   }

here?

Unfortunately, since tracing code is not available outside internals of
libkrb5, we cannot inject TRACE_MSPAC_VERIFY_FAIL(kcontext, kerr); here.



--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
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